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Florida’s Leading Pastors to Join Equal Ground ActionFund
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrew Feldman, Andrew@feldmanstrategies.com, 781-820-6650 Florida’s Leading Pastors to...
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- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
Nikki Fried, Black pastors call voter bills racist, voter suppression
Proposed voting changes would restrict mail ballot drop boxes, among other provisions. Bills to restrict vote-by-mail and tighten other...
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
‘This is racism’: Black pastors decry proposed changes to Florida voting laws
Black clergy and civil rights leaders from across the state are joining together in Tallahassee to oppose a bill they view as the latest...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
Black Community Leaders Call Proposed Drop-Box Ban an Attack on Their Vote
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — There’s an organized effort to fight a proposed Florida Senate bill that would ban drop boxes for mail-in ballots...
- Mar 15, 2021
- 3 min
‘Suppression’ or ‘security’? Uproar over Florida GOP’s ‘rollback of voting rights’
TALLAHASSEE - Four months ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis bragged that other states should emulate voting procedures in Florida, where former...
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
Overcoming Vaccine Disparities In Central Florida
Vaccinations are more widely available now as more people become eligible, but there are still disparities in distribution. Some of the...
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
Orlando groups canvasing, busing seniors to vaccination sites
Seniors at Magnolia Points Apartments will get free ride to vaccine site next ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando Commissioner Regina Hill has been...
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
New partnership to help schedule, transport seniors in west Orlando to vaccine appointments
ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill and Commissioner Robert Stuart announced a new partnership Friday to provide more...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Equal Ground Education offers legislative session training to mobilize Black Floridians, Feb. 16 & 1
BY J.A. JONES, Staff Writer The Equal Ground Education Fund (EGEF) is a non-partisan non-profit focused on building Black political power...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Equal Ground Education offers legislative session training to mobilize Black Floridians, Feb. 16 & 1
BY J.A. JONES, Staff Writer The Equal Ground Education Fund (EGEF) is a non-partisan non-profit focused on building Black political power...
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
Black churches’ Souls to the Polls efforts, even during COVID-19, aim to boost voter turnout
DETROIT — On a bitterly cold and gray afternoon, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III led dozens of his parishioners in a march around his...
- Oct 31, 2020
- 4 min
Last-minute weekend push by Dems, GOP rallies Escambia County citizens to vote
Across the United States, representatives of both major political parties scrambled to persuade voters to turnout and pledge last-minute...
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Souls to the Polls transporting voters in Jackson County
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - A massive Souls to the Polls event took place Saturday morning in Cottondale. Souls to the Polls is...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
Major Commitment to Have Vote-By-Mail Ballots "Cured" by Election Day in Florida
Floridians have been voting for over a month, but that comes to an end on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. As of Friday afternoon, more than 7.8...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Group targeting Black, brown voters in Florida to make sure their votes count
The Coalition for Black and Brown Voter Access has fanned out across Leon, Gadsden, and Jefferson counties to increase voter turnout and...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 5 min
Local minority community leaders: 'Democracy is on the ballot'
PANAMA CITY — Political discussions at home were customary growing up for local educator J. Dia Green-Jones. "I grew up in a family where...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Rallies And Rides Aim To Turn Out Black Voters
With just a few days remaining in the 2020 General Election, there’s a last minute push to encourage African-American voters in Northwest...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
Massive Final Weekend of “Souls to the Polls” Events Happening in Fourteen Counties in Florida
FLORIDA – This weekend, October 31 and November 1st, 2020, the Equal Ground Education Fund, which is the preeminent Black led...
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Souls To The Polls Events Scheduled This Weekend For Leon, Gadsden, Bay, Okaloosa Counties
The Equal Ground Education Fund is organizing Souls to the Polls events throughout Florida this weekend to encourage black voters to cast...
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
Statewide Campaign Aims To Help Black And Brown Voters Cure Rejected Ballots
A new statewide coalition of four progressive Florida organizations is helping Black and Brown voters cure rejected vote-by-mail ballots....
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